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The unexpected death in Egypt this week of pro-democracy activist and writer Bassem Sabry has led his friends and followers to honor him by promoting the principles and views he had expressed since the nation’s 2011 uprising. The 31-year-old Sabry, whose analyses of Egypt's politics the last few years were respected locally and internationally, died Tuesday from what is believed to have been an accidental fall from a balcony of a Cairo apartment. His funeral was Wednesday in the Egyptian capital. As a tribute, Sabry’s admirers -- his Twitter account lists 115,000 followers -- have delved into his writings. “The most painful death is the death of hope,” read a...

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The unexpected death in Egypt this week of pro-democracy activist and writer Bassem Sabry has led his friends and followers to honor him by promoting the principles and views he had expressed since the nation’s 2011 uprising.
The 31-year-old Sabry, whose...

CAIRO – A liberal Egyptian political party said Wednesday it is endorsing leftist presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi in his race against the overwhelming favorite, former army chief Abdel Fattah Sisi.
The endorsement shows the Constitution Party is a...

CAIRO — After weeks of deadly clashes, Egypt’s military-backed government and supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi may be edging toward a compromise that could ease the latest unrest threatening the nation’s erratic path toward democracy.
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When the Egyptian military overthrew Mohamed Morsi in July, little more than a year after he was elected president, it insisted that it was acting as a guardian of democracy and political pluralism. Whatever credibility that claim may have had at the...

CAIRO -- The passions fueling Egypt's political turbulence arose directly from the "Arab Spring" of 2011, but they have deeper roots in a decades-long struggle over the nation's identity between two authoritarian forces -- Islamists and a...

CAIRO — One day he might be accused of being a foreign agent. On another, an Islamist sympathizer. On yet another, of being part of a traitorous conspiracy.
Amr Hamzawy, a respected liberal politician and academic in Egypt, tries to shrug off the noxious...

CAIRO — Egypt’s highest court ruled Sunday that both the country’s upper house of parliament and the committee that drafted the nation’s constitution had been elected illegally, but the impact of the decision appeared to be largely technical.
“The...

CAIRO -- Apparently there is nothing funny about politics in Egypt these days.
A wildly popular “Daily Show”-type satire program was yanked from the air at the last minute Friday night, with the private channel that carries the show citing comedian...

CAIRO -- The Egyptian military Wednesday ordered a travel ban on President Mohamed Morsi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood movement as commanders worked to isolate the Islamist leader and form a coalition government.Egyptian media reported that...

CAIRO--The protests that have led Egypt to the brink of a military coup are hardly the first since Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi took office. In his yearlong tenure, Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party have defiantly weathered numerous...

June 30, 2012: Mohamed Morsi, a U.S.-educated engineer and activist with the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, is sworn in as Egypt’s first freely elected president. Morsi won 52% of the votes in a runoff election two weeks earlier and will rule...

CAIRO — The office of deposed President Mohamed Morsi accused Egypt's military of a "full coup" after it removed the embattled leader from office Wednesday and announced it was forming a coalition government, scrapping the Islamist-backed...

CAIRO -- The political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood called for a national uprising in retaliation for an attack by Egyptian security forces Monday that killed at least 42 anti-military protesters during morning prayers.
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CAIRO – Hazem Beblawi, a leading liberal economist, was named Egypt’s caretaker prime minister on Tuesday, ending days of speculation after the first choice for the position was abruptly withdrawn due to opposition from Islamists.
The interim...

CAIRO -- Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced a total of $8 billion in economic aid to help shore up Egypt’s military-backed interim leaders after Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was removed in a coup last week.The Persian...

CAIRO — Seeking to reassure the outside world after a turbulent week of street protests, Egypt's military-backed interim leaders on Tuesday appointed a caretaker prime minister and urged citizens to support a six-month timetable for revising the...

CAIRO -- A top U.S. diplomat Monday pressed Egypt’s interim leaders for a halt to violence and an inclusive transition to a new democratic government after the nation's Islamist president was ousted in a military coup.
The visit by Deputy Secretary of...